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The International Space Station is going to have two new camera which will take live video of the earth and send it directly to Google Earth. People will be able to see live streaming from next year. Urthecast (pronounced EarthCast) with the collaboration of Russian Aerospace giant RSC Energia recently announced this. According to http://www.urthecast.com/about/, The UrtheCast web platform will feel like a blending of a video version of GoogleEarth with the video playback and search functionality of YouTube. It will operate seamlessly with social media sites like Facebook and Twitter. With the world’s first and only near real time high definition video from space, the UrtheCast experience will be truly unique and will generate significant awareness, publicity and User interest world-wide: Enabling a uniquely powerful perspective on major international news stories like the crisis at Fukushima, the public uprising in Tahrir square, or refugee camps in the Sudan Empowering students with a rich educational perspective for viewing the wonders of the planet in a manner never before possible Unlocking human creativity and ingenious user generated content with events like flash crowds, innovative wedding proposals, and “the wave” at sporting events Creating a singular vantage point for observing environmental events around the world with recent and relevant video footage of earthquakes, floods, volcanoes, droughts and the effects of environmental change Providing a vehicle for innumerable gaming and cross-platform media applications and partnerships across the entertainment and social media spectrum People will able to know the date when these cameras will visit them and thus they can record any real time event. Even the source codes will be free for the developers. See more: http://www.urthecast.com